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The article is about the eastern motif “the horse and the rider in the desert”. This motif appeared in the
French poetry (Millevoye, Lagrange) in connection the translations of the Bedouin (desert arabs) poetry. Gradually
In poetry by V. Zukovskij’s (Песнь араба над могилою коня), A. Pushkin (IX Imitation from the poetic cycle
Подражания Корану), A. Mitskevich (Фарис), M. Lermontov (Три пальмы) the metasubject was formed in which
a synthesis of Eastern and Western motives was created. The poets start with the imitation of the eastern texts and
then in their poetry they start to express the philosophical ideas of correlation between the Eastern and the Christian
cultures as different forms of a civilization development.